THE TOKYO EYE

As you may already know that we've experienced unprecedented levels of events this year, including the collapse of 30-year-longstanding autocracy of the former Egyptian leader, largest earthquake and tsunami attacked Japan, greatest nuclear disaster in Fukushima since Chernobyl, assassination of bin Laden, London Riots, Downgrade of American government's stocks for the first time and more. Due to a number of big events that headlined all over the world sensationally, 2011 will be an unforgettable year for years to come in various meanings. Some Japanese Net-users, however, are arguing that 2011 is nothing when compared with previous years that built current orders and frameworks of the world from the ground up. Let's see what happened in the past. 2011 February : the collapse of the Egyptian autocratic regime. March : Japan's Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami. April : Fukushima Nuclear Power plants melt down. May : the assassination...

On August 6, 1945, an atomic-bomb, called Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima. The ground zero reached a temperature of a million degree in a skinny minute. The heat hotter than the surface of the sun burned down everything. Three days later, on August 9, another atomic-bomb was dropped on a city in Kyushu island, Nagasaki. Photographs taken by a Japanese photographer allows us to have a glimpse into the destructive features of Nagasaki shortly after the drop. The blast-wave  marked a person's shadow on the wall with its heat. Fat-man; the atomic-bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Developers of the atomic-bomb signed their name on the tail surface. Source(s): http://www.ninjintei.jp/onetyan/nagasaki.htm

People often forget histories eventually in a flow of the time. Our mandatory lives don't let ourselves trace back our treads. While we dream brilliantly, we intentionally let inferno take shape on the earth.  Illustrations and photographs of the incidents in Hiroshima and Nagasaki tell us the fact that the war generate nothing other than sorrow. A boy drawing himself up as shouldering his dead brother. A child's burned body. A victim of the war suffered the aftereffects of the atomic incident. The original feature of what we call Atomic-Bomb Dome today; this was a popular department store situating in the center of the city. A photo of the dome taken shortly after the incident. Atomic-Bomb Dome in night view. Students observing silent prayers. Thousand-origami-crane-tribute to Hiroshima. Source(s): http://local.election.ne.jp/poppy/6796.html http://miyabit.exblog.jp/9256416/ http://waku.cocolog-nifty.com/waku/2008/08/post_1ed5.htm...

After her visit in Hiroshima last month to receive the eighth Hiroshima award given for artists who message the importance of peace via modern arts, Yoko Ono visited Nagasaki for the first time, paying flower tribute. Then, she observed the Atomic Bomb Museum. At the end of her visit, she said that it is import to tell what Nagasaki experienced in the war to the world. Nagasaki citizens should proud of what they have done to rebuild their city from the disastrous situation. Source(s) http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0802/SEB201108020012.html?ref=rss